Notes

Page 153. 'Receipt for a Cake' (MS, 1841??). Undated MS laid into SC's second Commonplace Book, perhaps from the early 1840s. 'This was merely a Specimen for an intended rhyming Cookery Book thought of for a Bazaar, but never executed' (SC). Earlier in the album HC wrote a jocular poem 'I sing Minced Pie, the pride of Christmas cheer', so culinary rhyming had family precedent; HC's verses were published as 'Minced-Pie; A Christmas Carol. To Miss S——' in Blackwood's Magazine (February 1828), pp. 252–5.